Ultra 6 OS Upgrade from 4.2.30 to OS 6 then adding PLEX addon, which .deb file to download ?

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xlr8r wrote:

 

since the drives are empty anyway why do i need to wait 26 hours on a sync ?

A RAID array is a virtual disk that provides raw block storage.  Every block on the physical disks needs to be either read or written when the array is created - that is needed to construct the parity blocks that provide RAID redundancy.  The fact that the file system "on top" of the virtual disk is empty doesn't matter - the process is the same whether the file system is full or empty.

There's no way around this step.  You can start to put data onto the NAS while it is resyncing, but I suggest waiting until it's done.  The NAS performance is slower during the resync, and copying files onto the NAS now will also make the resync take longer.